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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Microsoft buys Nokia’s phone business for $7.2 billion in an attempt to imitate Apple

Steve Elop vs. Steve Ballmer
If you thought that some kind of Grand Plan was afoot when Stephen Elop moved from Microsoft to Nokia in 2010, you were right: Microsoft has announced that it will acquire Nokia’s mobile phone business and a “broad intellectual property license” for Nokia’s patent portfolio, for 5.44 billion Euros (~$7.2 billion). 

PS4 and Xbox One won’t support external hard drives for now

Xbox One and PS4, product shots
Both the PS4 and Xbox One will ship with 500GB hard drives. The PS4′s drive is user-upgradable, but the Xbox One’s is most certainly not. Even so, both consoles sport USB 3.0 ports, so expanding the storage should be simple, right? Sadly, that’s not the case. At least at launch, neither the PS4 or Xbox One will have full support for external hard drives.

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Samsung Galaxy Gear makes early showing in leaked photos




Samsung's entry into the smartwatch wars is getting shown off a little earlier than the company intended.
Venture Beat on Sunday posted photos of what it says is a prototype of Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch that was sent to developers. The photos are actually stills from an "internal promotional marketing video" that was created by an independent team working with Samsung, according to Venture Beat.
The photos show off the purported smartwatch's OLED display running what appears to be a handful of different apps.